Now that she is freely identified as the victim of Harold LeBel, Catherine Fournier wants to encourage other people in her situation to file a complaint.
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“I have so much to say that I don’t know where to start,” she said immediately in a post on her Instagram account shortly after 9 a.m.
In her momentum, the Mayor of Longueuil sends a message of hope in light of a trying process that the young woman has gone through: “all paths are valid”.
This is why she wishes to inspire other “brave” victims cloistered in silence and doubt.
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“If I choose to speak from now on, it is to share my experience, to help other people benefit from what I have learned by helping to demystify this unknown person represented by the journey of a victim. of sexual assault through the legal system”, can we read.
Member of Parliament for the riding of Marie-Victorin under the PQ banner between 2016 and 2021, Ms.me Fournier wanted to “emphasize” the quality of the support she received from “extraordinary human beings”.
“If I [formule] obviously some constructive criticism over the coming days, I first want to make it clear that I have no regrets about my journey, she says.
“Quite the contrary. I am proud to have been there and I came out of it with my head held high, well beyond the verdict.
Mme Fournier concludes his publication with a word of affection and solidarity.
“You are brave, just as much as you are, just as much as we are, and I am thinking of you.”
A documentary, Witness CFwill be presented on the Vrai platform, from TVA, from Wednesday.